Biological Sciences Have a Long Way to Go and Need to Be Taken More Seriously

[Contrast]

I don't understand why the biological sciences are not given more priority, funding, appreciation and recognition. Why is biology not taken seriously? The technological sciences are way more ahead, considering we have computers, and smartphones. But we can't regrow the damaged cells in our body!

Poster is not me, but basically ask the question I want to know.

https://www.quora.com/Why-is-the-medical-progress-very-slow-compared-to-technology

Below I just want to show examples of what biomedical sciences can do, and the promise they hold.


Up and Coming Treatments for Peripheral Neuropathy

https://www.kqed.org/science/1207350/rudolphs-antlers-could-help-restore-mobility-in-injured-humans

Up and Coming Treatments for Hearing Loss (Dr. Liberman's research)

https://www.entandaudiologynews.com...-conversation-with-professor-charles-liberman

Up and Coming Treatment for Heart Disease

http://www.oprah.com/health/stem-cell-research-on-heart-disease

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I just wanted to point out I am literally friends on the Internet with other people who are suffering and in "total shit" condition physically. Whether it be tinnitus, hearing loss, noxacusis, fibromyalgia, nerve pain, heart disease, sexual dysfunction, rheumatoid arthritis, auto immune disorders. Basically these people are suffering like slaves just because of bad biology. It's like an innocent good person gets a prison sentence. They have the most unforgiving lives that they don't deserve. It's heart breaking.

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I'm surprised how many parallels exist with "it's all in your head" and CBT/ACT/opioids flowchart treatments I've heard. As well as people who get denied disability multiple times. yatta yatta. Hidden Hearing loss and small fiber neuropathy are two examples of "illusive problems" that go diagnosed.


Here's an example...


Hidden Hearing Loss

https://www.wsj.com/articles/cant-hear-in-noisy-places-its-a-real-medical-condition-1474909624

Small Fiber Neuropathy

https://www.health.harvard.edu/diseases-and-conditions/new-thinking-on-peripheral-neuropathy

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I've drawn to the conclusion that biological sciences are very far behind and this is simply a "too early" part of human history. Hopefully the future (which is what we choose) will be better. Well because this part of human history is pathetic. A world without biological sciences to save the day, is a bad world indeed.

https://oklahoman.com/article/5560970/oklahoma-discovery-could-restore-hearing-with-a-pill
Imagine walking in the clinic with tinnitus and walking out with new cochlear synaptic connections. That will be the day.

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[Bill Bauer]

Ideally the additional benefit as a result of the last dollar spent on a project has to be equal across all of one's projects. If that wasn't the case, it would be possible to increase the total benefit by moving the money from the project for which this value is the lowest to the project for which this value is the highest.

What we are observing might be the result of biology projects being inherently expensive (as a result of the incredible complexity of biological systems), implying that even though each of those biology projects has a high total benefit, the cost is also high. Alternatively, it could be that the venture capitalists, angel investors, and government agencies in charge of allocating funds make decisions based on politics instead of relying on the sound cost-benefit analysis.

 

[Jazzer]

As nobody has found the answer, perhaps this predicament is insoluble.
Success would generate billions.
The prize is guaranteed.

 

[FGG]

Ideally the additional benefit as a result of the last dollar spent on a project has to be equal across all of one's projects. If that wasn't the case, it would be possible to increase the total benefit by moving the money from the project for which this value is the lowest to the project for which this value is the highest.

What we are observing might be the result of biology projects being inherently expensive (as a result of the incredible complexity of biological systems), implying that even though each of those biology projects has a high total benefit, the cost is also high. Alternatively, it could be that the venture capitalists, angel investors, and government agencies in charge of allocating funds make decisions based on politics instead of relying on the sound cost-benefit analysis.

I think, in the past, not centralizing and pooling research has also been a huge obstacle and research had to be even duplicated at times.

Effective computer modeling and even AI is allowing huge strides in research now and can circumvent some of that. Before that, it was an almost insurmountable trial and error, but now simulations can play through compounds more easily and scientists have an idea what drugs will bind to the structures they need and how.

If you look at the drugs coming out in the last few years, you can already start to see they are paradigm changers and not just "building a better mousetrap." For example: exon skipping drugs.

 

[FGG]

As nobody has found the answer, perhaps this predicament is insoluble.
Success would generate billions.
The prize is guaranteed.

You don't just "find the answer", you build on existing research in a step like pattern until you find it. Take Frequency Therapeutics for example, the concept of progenitor cell activation had to be learned in the intestine mucosa first (which can fully regenerate in about a week) before it could be applied to the cochlea. But more generally, it wasn't until they discovered that birds and even neonatal mice to some degree do this naturally that they found out how feasible this was in people. You can't skip the "discovery" phase though and that takes time.

It's like trying to invent the internet before the computer chip or even electricity. It doesn't happen that way.

 

[MrCrybaby]

There will need to be a major paradigm shift in patients. Right now a lot of pseudoscience can be found mainstream treatments, from TRT to orthodontics to chiropractics, there are so many "treatment options" that range from useless to harmful. Patients will need to learn to expect real solutions to their problems and not treatments based solely on ideology.

 

[PeteJ]

As long as morons aka humans are fucking stupid, selfish and self-centered, they vote for assholes and garbage who won't do anything to help people. Keep voting for liberal puppets and neocons, idiots.

 

[Contrast]

https://www.gethealthystayhealthy.com/en-au/articles/what-is-fibromyalgia

 

[MrCrybaby]

https://www.gethealthystayhealthy.com/en-au/articles/what-is-fibromyalgia
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I had my chronic fatigue brushed off as psychosomatic for YEARS before I was sent in for a sleep study. It's the Wild West out there.

 

[Contrast]

There needs to be a way for patients to influence the NIH directly. I know someone with a horrible niche form of neuropathy that literally called the NIH. He told it "it was very difficult to get in touch with the right people" He's seen all the doctors in the world and got no where.

unreal. Honestly how many times I heard this. This part of human history sucks.

 

[Tybs]

The comparison between technological and biological research is not completely fair when we consider measurement: meaning the capability to measure data objectively.

With computers, we can put sensors on every datastream we want. All the data can be read and translated into whatever kind of information we need. When it comes to the human body, we cannot get to this level of detail. Sure, measuring a pulse is possible, and we can use scans to see some brain activity: but we have no way of following every "bit" of data that is sent throughout the body. We cannot "select" a toe as source, and read all the signals that are send from this body part to the brain. All we can do is form a hypothesis and experiment on a bunch of people: a method that can bear fruit, but it is never truly objective. Incorrect conclusions occur quite often.

Data equals knowledge here. I'm convinced that once the body can be measured with the described level of detail, every chronic illness could be resolved in a matter of years.

 

[Contrast]

https://psychcentral.com/blog/its-all-in-your-head-living-with-chronic-illness/

This is a shit part of human history and the only thing we can do is document how bad it is.

 

[Contrast]

https://www.meassociation.org.uk/20...igue-biomedicine-health-behavior-7-july-2016/

The Chronic Fatigue Syndrome community is already a head of us. Let's see what we can learn from them.

 

[serendipity1996]

https://www.meassociation.org.uk/20...igue-biomedicine-health-behavior-7-july-2016/

The Chronic Fatigue Syndrome community is already a head of us. Let's see what we can learn from them.
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It's unfortunate that in the UK CFS still seems to be very much labelled as a psychosomatic condition and psychological therapies dominate going by what I've seen. But at least there's hope that it's changing.

 

[Contrast]

Growing human organs inside pigs (or potentially primates) could be something extremely promising in the future for diseases relating to organ failure. They have along way to go, this science is in it's infancy. But biologist do all sorts of amazing things that can change the quality of lives for millions of people


They fuse the egg cell of the pig with certain cells from a human body during a very early window.

https://www.statnews.com/2017/10/20/human-pig-chimera/

 

[FGG]

Growing human organs inside pigs (or potentially primates) could be something extremely promising in the future for diseases relating to organ failure. They have along way to go, this science is in it's infancy. But biologist do all sorts of amazing things that can change the quality of lives for millions of people

They fuse the egg cell of the pig with certain cells from a human body during a very early window.

https://www.statnews.com/2017/10/20/human-pig-chimera/

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They have come even further since 2017:

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/05/21/us/human-mouse-chimera-hybrid-scn-trnd/index.html

Wish they would work on a translatable cochlea when they improve this but I know that is far off for now. If you even look up "cochlear transplant" all you get is info on CIs and that's so not equivalent.

 

[Greg Sacramento]

When it comes to the human body, we cannot get to this level of detail. Sure, measuring a pulse is possible, and we can use scans to see some brain activity: but we have no way of following every "bit" of data that is sent throughout the body. We cannot "select" a toe as source, and read all the signals that are send from this body part to the brain.

I also think very much so.
For those over 60:
Neuro, heart and vascular diseases don't get discovered soon enough. Someone older could have just one hypertensive event that lasts only a few seconds where a stroke or heart attack doesn't happen, but all kinds of serious damage can happen. For those older who just don't feel right, I think that they should be given ultrasounds of their entire body as well as a chest X Ray, heart ECHO and complete blood work. With those older, the carotid receives noticeable signals from troubled organs and from blood flow distress from anywhere in the body including the toes.

 

[Contrast]

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20180523-how-gender-bias-affects-your-healthcare

Women, as well as low-income patients, experienced longer delays. They were more likely than men to see 10 or more months pass between their first visit to a doctor and diagnosis –and to have made more than five visits to a doctor prior to diagnosis.